Motorcycle evangelist Thor Drake is at it again, taking art and motorcycle culture in new, unexpected directions. The curator of the One Motorcycle Show in Portland, Drake’s take on „custom” has little to do with $30,000 paint jobs and chrome overdose, and everything to do with thrift, creativity and expression. The 21 Helmets Art Show iterated this theme pairing 21 artists from the Northwest with blank, white Bell Custom 500 helmets as the canvas. The results are as varied and interesting as the artists who made them.

Anand, a modern Indian yogi and guru, asks his student Adam to join him on a motorcycle expedition through the highest passes of the Indian Himalayas. These are some of the most dangerous roads in the world, but Adam only just learned to ride two weeks before the trip. Still, they manage to assemble a team of seven motorcycle riders to share in what will become the journey of a lifetime. We are guided by Anand who bears the burden of a Vedic prophecy that predicts he will die in his late twenties in an accident. He is that age now, yet leads fearlessly with the wisdom that „Only the one who dies, truly lives.”